Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite pole of attraction, to which an equal number of extremists are inexorably drawn each year, is the outside activity. Excepting only athletics, outside activities have been enjoying a steady decline in health at Harvard during the past two years. Favor has turned to restricted outside activity, concentrated on one or at most two lines of endeavor. The activities themselves have benefited by a purge of triflers, and in managership competitions of the socially ambitions. The belief has gained strength that the by-products of study, mysterious as they are in origin, are worth more than the uncertain experience...
...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...
That 250,000 Greeks are down with dengue feve* was last week's startling announcement from the Greek Ministry of Health...
...University of Pennsylvania three out of five students have ringworm. Half the adult population of the U. S., and practically everybody in the South, has suffered from the disease at some time or another. So annoying is this situation that Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the U. S. Health Service last week sent a special bulletin to the health officer of every community...
...Elder, famed aviatrix; by Lyle Womack, of Balboa, C. Z. Aviatrix Elder has been appearing in vaudeville throughout the U. S. and cinemacting in support of two aged parents and five brothers. Husband Womack, in Central America, charged cruelty, said, "weight has been reduced, efficiency for work lessened and health and reason endangered." On her return from the trans-Atlantic flight she refused him the connubial salute, said "Don't be a fool...